About the Book
The ActionScript 3.0 Bible, 2nd Edition, aims to be your ultimate guide to ActionScript 3.0, the common language of the Flash Platform. It's written by a programmer for programmers (and aspiring programmers!), with as much detail as could possibly be crammed into a thousand page tome. It is completely up-to-date with the absolute bleeding edge of Flash way, way out of date, covering Flash Player 10.1 and the common features in Flex 4, AIR 2, and Flash Professional CS5.
Here are some bullets!
- Massively updated and revised
- Program for mobile devices
- Learn AS3 you’ll use in Flash Professional CS5, Flash Builder 4, Flex 4, and AIR 2
- Run and modify over 200 new examples in your browser, with no software or setup required
- Use the speedy new
Vector class
- Interface with web services in any language
- Display print-quality text with the Flash Text Engine and Text Layout Framework
- Learn 3D math and program your own 3D engine with AS3
- Write and run powerful pixel shaders with Pixel Bender
- Synthesize and analyze sound digitally
- Display, analyze, and capture audio and video
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About the Stylish and Handsome Author
Roger Braunstein is a multidisciplinary programmer and the Chief Roger Officer of Partlyhuman, an independent development and design shop in Portland, OR. Besides this book, Roger is an author of the first edition of ActionScript 3.0 Bible, and a short e-book, Introduction to Flex 2. Roger builds games, mobile apps, interactive art, tools, web apps, and websites using any technology he can wrap his head around. When not in front of a computer, Roger enjoys normal human activities such as biking, cooking, reading, traveling, taking photos, rollerskating, and dancing to music made on GameBoys. He is perpetually too preoccupied to put anything interesting on his site http://partlyhuman.com/, but you can use it to get in touch with him.